Igor Kushnir authored Feb 12, 2022 and Milian Wolff committed May 28, 2022

bc828ea9 removed no longer necessary
KLockFile::Ptr m_lock from ItemRepositoryRegistry, but failed to remove
the lockForWriting() call, which worked around an issue related to
m_lock. From the documentation to QDir::removeRecursively():
  If a file or directory cannot be removed, removeRecursively() keeps
  going and attempts to delete as many files and sub-directories as
  possible, then returns false.

Clearly, any protection offered by creating the "is_writing" file in the
directory is unreliable because removeRecursively() may remove the newly
created file first.